Nudity, Is It Sexist In This Forum?

[SteelCurtain]

I understand, and I apologize if I didn't make it clear that I don't agree with or associate myself with that charge. I don't, and won't. I post here at AF on the premise that the Staff are acting in good faith. Seeing some of the behavior in this thread is for me a bit disheartening, is all. I think her basic point is that satisfyng the law is understandable and necessary, but the resistance from staff on considering a higher standard than that seems a little odd to me. There's value to holding free-speech as the sine qua non of a freethinking forum. There's also value to considering how the forum's policies might well be furthering an attitude that no doubt we all -- except for a couple of chauvinists here -- find unpleasant.

But we did consider it. There is an entire thread in the Staff Area of the forum dedicated to this topic. We actually discussed it earnestly for a bit, as well. I will admit the immediate accusation of sexism on the part of the staff in the OP colored our attitude from the offset, but we did discuss it.

We decided that there is no real benefit here other than a weird sense of solidarity that isn't entirely genuine. The staff (pardon me for speaking for everyone) agrees that the definition of 'pornography' should change and should not include female breasts/nipples. That is the fight, and rather than restricting posts any more than we have to in order to protect the forum owner/servers from liability and protecting our ad revenue on the guest site, we decided that if individual members want to show their solidarity by not posting pictures of bare chested men, they could do that.